A17384:3642
A commentary
A commentary: or, sermons upon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter wherein method, sense, doctrine, and use, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of divinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.A commentary: or, sermons vpon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter vvherein method, sense, doctrine, and vse, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of diuinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.
London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623
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Secondly, in the most there is a great want in the exercise both of the fear of God, and trust in God: men have not such awful thoughts of God, as they should have, nor do they tremble so, as they should, at his judgements that are in the world, Psal. 4.4. Heb. 2. ult. Dan. 6.26. And for the trust in God: men are specially faulty, that they do not commit their ways daily to GOD for assistance and success in all estates,1 resting upon him alone, as they ought to do.
Secondly, in the most there is a great want in the exercise both of the feare of God, and trust in God: men haue not such awfull thoughts of God, as they should haue, nor doe they tremble so, as they shold, at his iudgemēts that are in the world, Psal. 4.4. Heb. 2. vlt. Dan. 6.26. And for the trust in God: men are specially faulty, that they doe not commit their waies daily to GOD for assistance and successe in all estates,1 resting vpon him alone, as they ought to doe.